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Wires

You can use a wire to connect components into an integrated application. The target of a wire must support the interface or interfaces that the source specifies.

There are two types of wires. The first type of wire comes from a partner reference (the source) that is defined for a component or stand-alone references node and goes to a component or import (the target). In this case, the wire identifies the component or import (target) that is accessed when the source component uses that partner reference. By default, a partner reference contains only one wire leading from it unless the partner reference's multiplicity property is changed to 0...n.

The second type of wire comes from an export (the source) and goes to a component or import (the target). In this case, the wire identifies the (target) component that provides the service. An export can have only one wire leading out of it.

You can wire components together in the assembly editor by moving the mouse pointer over the source component or partner reference to display the handle and then dragging the handle to connect to the target. The following illustration shows a component with the handle displayed for wiring:

The following illustration shows a partner reference with the handle displayed for wiring:

You can also use the editor's wire action to automatically wire components together. To learn about the wiring action, see "Creating and wiring components."

Create and wiring components